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Or maybe folks like me that don't find it that alarming or surprising. After all, isn't this the same
culture that tweeted away when the sci guy collapsed at USC.
Or how about that horrendous incident in NY, after that guy tried to save a woman from a
mugger, was stabbed and lay bleeding, and people just walked around him.
Here you had the good Samaritan, and then the rest of them.
Sure, taking groceries from a dead woman's car is low, but not as low as ^^^^^
It is LOW, stop trying to excuse it.
Two kids burned alive and woman more worried about EBT card
Two children, ages 2 and 3-year old were left home alone shortly before a fire broke out.
Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits. The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping frenzy ended.
Yea, I heard about that. Widespread looting and stealing during natural disasters I've heard of as well. The common denominator in most of these instances is poverty. I'm not justifying any of these behaviors, just understanding what triggers them. Sometimes its anger, or greed, or striking back from feeling oppressed by the "system".
None of that would apply to taking groceries from a dead woman's vehicle, that is just sick. And even those in poverty would agree.
Yea, I heard about that. Widespread looting and stealing during natural disasters I've heard of as well. The common denominator in most of these instances is poverty. I'm not justifying any of these behaviors, just understanding what triggers them. Sometimes its anger, or greed, or striking back from feeling oppressed by the "system".
None of that would apply to taking groceries from a dead woman's vehicle, that is just sick. And even those in poverty would agree.
Stealing in general from people/businesses that have suffered.
I wonder if anyone thought to take her purse..after all she doesn't need her money any more does she ?
Might as well decriminalize grave robbing. Skeletons don't need their bones or whatever might have been buried with them.
Two kids burned alive and woman more worried about EBT card
Two children, ages 2 and 3-year old were left home alone shortly before a fire broke out.
Wow. That lady didnt seem to give one damn about what happened to the kids. And the laughing at the end about hoping her purse and food stamps are okay.....wth?! Sickening. Unreal
Investigators said city residents Omar Smith, Narvell Benning and Keith Marshall collectively ran 13 debt collection companies under the banner, the Benning Smith Group. The attorney general’s office received over 850 complaints from consumers who faced physical and sexual threats as well as intimidating and sexually harassing tactics in an attempt to collect debts that in many cases, the victims did not owe.
In the statement announcing the lawsuit, Cuomo outlined the charges against the company, charges that appear on the surface even more severe that those companies Cuomo previously cited in his ongoing investigation into credit collection agencies.
“This company made lies, threats and abuse their calling cards in their efforts to manipulate and take advantage of consumers already facing tough economic times,” Cuomo said. “They did everything they could to demean and humiliate their targets, stooping so low as to sexually harass and verbally abuse individuals nationwide.” The lawsuit, filed this morning in State Supreme Court, seeks to shut down all 13 businesses operating under The Benning Smith Group.
The caller, Minton alleges, wasn't a lawyer, but an employee of a debt-collection operation that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is trying to shut down.
In a lawsuit filed this month in state supreme court in Erie County, Cuomo's office alleges employees of 13 debt collection companies run by Buffalo-based Benning-Smith Group illegally posed as law enforcement officials or lawyers and threatened to arrest and harm people unless they made arrangements to pay.
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